Bentley and Cohn

In the 20th-Century Views series volume on Brecht, there is an essay where Eric Bentley slights Beckett by saying that he was incapable of writing a full-length play. In the Case Book series on "Waiting for Godot", Ruby Cohn included Bentley's review of the play which had appeared in "The New Review". It was democratic of Cohn, Becketteer and anti-Brechteer to include in her book an article by Bentley, Brechteer and anti-Becketteer. Bentley told me later that in his book, "What's Theatre?" he was less unfriendly with "Godot" and its author